Posts Tagged by Neanderthals
Study: Neanderthals did not live more violently than other ancient peoples
| November 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From a study of over 200 skulls: Males suffered the bulk of harmful head knocks, whether they were Neandertals or ancient humans, the scientists report online November 14 in Nature. “Our results suggest that Neandertal lifestyles were not more dangerous than those of early modern Europeans,” Harvati says. Bruce Bower, “Skull damage suggests Neandertals led no […]
Neanderthals walked normally, upright, say researchers
| November 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
The skeleton was of a 32-year-old man: Neanderthals walked upright, had spines straighter than those of modern man, would have been strong and sturdy, and breathed deeply from their bell-, not barrel-shaped ribcages, according to a recently published article written by an international team of scientists. Busting open the myth of the arm-dragging, hunched-over caveman, […]
No one evolved faster than the Neanderthal
| November 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, language |
Look how smart he got in the last few decades: This from a discussion of whether Neanderthals had language: Based on these results, most researchers agree Neanderthals were capable of emitting and hearing complex vocalizations. However, they disagree over the implications. While some consider the findings indicative of speech-based language in Neanderthals, others propose these […]
Two Neanderthal children from 250 kya showed lead exposure, and much else
| November 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
Based on an analysis of their teeth: Two 250,000-year-old teeth from two Neanderthal children revealed that both of them were exposed to lead twice during their short lifetimes, the first known case of lead exposure in Neanderthals… “Teeth record environmental variation based on the climate, even where you’re growing up,” said Tanya Smith, lead author […]
Neanderthals practiced some forms of health care 1.6 mya
| October 3, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine |
For one thing, they had to cope with injuries inflicted by large wild animals they were hunting: Researchers investigated the skeletal remains of more than 30 individuals where minor and serious injuries were evident, but did not lead to loss of life. The samples displayed several episodes of injury and recovery, suggesting that Neanderthals must have had a […]
In the latest version: Cold climate helped to do in the Neanderthals
| September 3, 2018 | Posted by News under extinction, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: A team of researchers from a number of European and American research institutions, including Northumbria University, Newcastle, have produced detailed new natural records from stalagmites that highlight changes in the European climate more than 40,000 years ago. They found several cold periods that coincide with the timings of a near complete absence of […]
A physicist looks at biology’s problem of “speciation” in humans
| August 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation |
Consider this item on the recent find of the remains of a girl from 90,000 years ago: The discovery of the first-known offspring of parents from two different hominin species took scientists by surprise. While evidence has been pointing to interbreeding among the ancestor species of modern humans, the direct link is being hailed as […]
Neanderthal woman, Denisovan man
| August 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: Together with their sister group the Neanderthals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. “We knew from previous studies that Neanderthals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together,” says Viviane Slon, researcher at the MPI-EVA and one of three first authors of the study. “But I never thought we […]
Neanderthals had a sophisticated home life?
| August 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
New Scientist is now rehabilitating the Neanderthals. We once thought of Neanderthals as crude and unintelligent – not any more. Archaeological evidence suggests they were capable of symbolic thought, had some capacity for speech, and probably carried out elaborate burial rituals. They may even have taught modern humans new skills when the two species met […]
